Press Release
POSTINI AND ZIXCORP ANNOUNCE STRATEGIC AGREEMENT TO PROVIDE POLICY-BASED EMAIL ENCRYPTION
Leaders in Integrated Message Management and email encryption solutions team for advanced email protection
SAN CARLOS, CA and DALLAS — Dec. 21, 2005 — Postini, Inc., the global leader in Integrated Message Management, and Zix Corporation (ZixCorp®), (NASDAQ: ZIXI), a global provider of secure email encryption and e-prescribing solutions and services, today announced that they have entered into a strategic agreement to address demand for, policy-based email encryption. As part of Postini's ongoing strategy to expand its Integrated Message Management capabilities, it will incorporate ZixCorp's send-to-anyone email encryption technology into its leading managed service offering.
The relationship is designed to enable organizations that require policy-driven email encryption to easily implement the service as part of a single managed services platform without the need for any additional infrastructure or capital expenditures.
"Encryption is a key part of our Integrated Message Management strategy, because customers are looking for an integrated, seamless approach to identifying and securing sensitive email communications. This agreement with a leader in the market like ZixCorp is a natural fit for us," said Scott Petry, founder and senior vice president of products and engineering for Postini. "With ZixCorp technology, Postini can offer customers rich conditional encryption capabilities from the Postini platform to meet both their internal and external confidentiality and compliance requirements."
"We are delighted to have been selected by Postini, a clear leader in this industry. The relationship underscores our commitment to winning the trust of wide-reaching and high-growth service delivery channels for our technology," said Nigel Johnson, vice president of business development and product management for ZixCorp. "Postini's customers will not only be able to communicate easily with email recipients who don't have encryption software, they will also be able to securely communicate directly with the four million email addresses currently protected by ZixCorp."
Postini serves more than 35,000 businesses, with more than 8.6 million end users, and processes in excess of three billion messages per week. It has won numerous industry and publication awards and accolades, and is listed the Leader Quadrant in Gartner's latest Email Security Boundary Magic Quadrant.
"We have a real requirement to encrypt our critical email communications to customers, partners, and employees, and we're pleased to be working with Postini for advanced, integrated encryption capabilities delivered via a managed service," said Ralph Comulada, Vice President of Infrastructure and Network Services at National Financial Partners, a Postini customer.
With ZixCorp's encryption technology, Postini's customers will be able to add policy-based, best-of-breed email encryption capability to their inbound and outbound email communications, without requiring recipients to download software or deviate from conventional email use. The service will be available in the first quarter of 2006.
About Postini Inc.
Postini is the global leader in Integrated Message Management, providing compliance, security, availability, and visibility solutions for corporate email and instant messaging. Postini offers a complete suite of services including message archiving and discovery, spam and virus blocking, and messaging continuity. The company's powerful managed services infrastructure seamlessly integrates with customers' infrastructure, providing uncompromising security for more companies than any other provider in the world. Postini's services protect organizations from a wide range of threats, reduce compliance and legal risks, ensure reliable communications, and enable the intelligent management and enforcement of enterprise policies that protect companies' intellectual property, reputations and business relationships. No other company does more to reduce the cost, risks and complications of securing and managing IP-based messaging for businesses. For more information contact Postini at 866-767-8461, or visit http://www.postini.com.
About Zix Corporation
Zix Corporation (ZixCorp®) provides easy-to-use-and-deploy e-communication services that protect, manage, and deliver sensitive information to enterprises and consumers in healthcare, finance, insurance, and government. ZixCorp's email encryption services enable policy-driven email encryption, content filtering, and send-to-anyone capability while its e-prescribing service improves patient care, reduces costs, and improves efficiency for the healthcare community. For more information, visit www.zixcorp.com.
